Posted on 09/27/2021 12:39:21 AM PDT by blueplum
Washington — The blame game has begun in Washington following the demise of police reform legislation that had been the subject of bipartisan negotiations for more than a year on Capitol Hill.
Democratic lawmakers, led by Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Representative Karen Bass of California, decided last Wednesday to call off negotiations with a group of Republicans led by Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina....
...Scott, for his part, said attaching strings to federal money was a nonstarter for Republicans in the latest debate.
"We have about a billion dollars in grant money that goes to police," the South Carolina Republican said Sunday on "Face the Nation." "When you start saying, 'In order to receive those dollars, you must do A, B and C, and if you don't do a B and C, you literally lose eligibility for the two major pots of money' — the Byrne grants and the COP grants — when you tell local law enforcement agencies that you are ineligible for money, that's defunding the police. There's no way to spin that."...
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I don’t see anything wrong with those proposals. This being said by a guy who, when he was a young man, was held in choke holds and kicked in the head and held at shotgun point by cops for absolutely nothing, other than the cops felt like it.
As a 30 year career police officer… i see no issues with the proposals as written.. but inalso dont want federal fingers in the local police dept soup too much either…
Good for Senator Scott. He sees the slippery slope there. I wish more Republicans would also get this capability.
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